Mother Tongue (269), Knowledge of Official Languages (5) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Divisions, Census Subdivisions and Dissemination Areas, 2016 Census - 100% Data

• Sex (3): Total - Sex

This table details mother tongue , knowledge of official languages and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Queens

Mother tongue (269)	Knowledge of official languages (5)
	Total - Knowledge of official languages	English only	French only	English and French	Neither English nor French
Total - Mother tongue^Footnote 1	80,775	69,450	60	10,265	1,005
Single responses	80,155	69,110	55	9,990	1,000
Official languages	74,260	64,530	50	9,660	20
English	72,685	64,390	0	8,275	20
French	1,575	145	45	1,385	0
Non-official languages	5,900	4,580	5	330	980
Aboriginal languages	35	35	0	5	0
Algonquian languages	35	30	0	5	0
Blackfoot	0	0	0	0	0
Cree-Montagnais languages	0	0	0	0	0
Atikamekw	0	0	0	0	0
Montagnais (Innu)	0	0	0	0	0
Moose Cree	0	0	0	0	0
Naskapi	0	0	0	0	0
Northern East Cree	5	0	0	0	0
Plains Cree	0	0	0	0	0
Southern East Cree	0	0	0	0	0
Swampy Cree	0	0	0	0	0
Woods Cree	0	0	0	0	0
Cree, n.o.s.	0	0	0	0	0
Eastern Algonquian languages	30	30	0	0	0
Malecite	0	0	0	0	0
Mi'kmaq	30	30	0	0	0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages	0	0	0	0	0
Algonquin	0	0	0	0	0
Ojibway	0	0	0	0	0
Oji-Cree	0	0	0	0	0
Ottawa (Odawa)	0	0	0	0	0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Athabaskan languages	0	0	0	0	0
Northern Athabaskan languages	0	0	0	0	0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en)	0	0	0	0	0
Beaver	0	0	0	0	0
Carrier	0	0	0	0	0
Chilcotin	0	0	0	0	0
Dene	0	0	0	0	0
Dogrib (Tlicho)	0	0	0	0	0
Gwich'in	0	0	0	0	0
Sarsi (Sarcee)	0	0	0	0	0
Sekani	0	0	0	0	0
Slavey-Hare languages	0	0	0	0	0
North Slavey (Hare)	0	0	0	0	0
South Slavey	0	0	0	0	0
Slavey, n.o.s.	0	0	0	0	0
Tahltan languages	0	0	0	0	0
Kaska (Nahani)	0	0	0	0	0
Tahltan	0	0	0	0	0
Tutchone languages	0	0	0	0	0
Northern Tutchone	0	0	0	0	0
Southern Tutchone	0	0	0	0	0
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Haida	0	0	0	0	0
Inuit languages	5	0	0	0	0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun)	0	0	0	0	0
Inuktitut	0	0	0	0	0
Inuit languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Iroquoian languages	0	0	0	0	0
Cayuga	0	0	0	0	0
Mohawk	0	0	0	0	0
Oneida	0	0	0	0	0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Kutenai	0	0	0	0	0
Michif	0	0	0	0	0
Salish languages	0	0	0	0	0
Comox	0	0	0	0	0
Halkomelem	0	0	0	0	0
Lillooet	0	0	0	0	0
Okanagan	0	0	0	0	0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin)	0	0	0	0	0
Squamish	0	0	0	0	0
Straits	0	0	0	0	0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux)	0	0	0	0	0
Salish languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Siouan languages	0	0	0	0	0
Dakota	0	0	0	0	0
Stoney	0	0	0	0	0
Siouan languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Tlingit	0	0	0	0	0
Tsimshian languages	0	0	0	0	0
Gitxsan (Gitksan)	0	0	0	0	0
Nisga'a	0	0	0	0	0
Tsimshian	0	0	0	0	0
Wakashan languages	0	0	0	0	0
Haisla	0	0	0	0	0
Heiltsuk	0	0	0	0	0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala)	0	0	0	0	0
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka)	0	0	0	0	0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s.	0	5	0	0	0
Non-Aboriginal languages	5,860	4,545	5	325	985
Afro-Asiatic languages	590	395	5	55	140
Berber languages	0	0	0	0	0
Kabyle	0	0	0	0	0
Berber languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Cushitic languages	50	40	0	0	10
Bilen	0	0	0	0	0
Oromo	0	0	0	0	0
Somali	50	45	0	0	5
Cushitic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages	545	350	0	50	135
Amharic	0	5	0	0	0
Arabic	515	325	5	50	135
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic	0	0	0	0	0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic	0	0	0	0	0
Harari	0	0	0	0	0
Hebrew	25	20	0	0	0
Maltese	5	0	0	0	0
Tigrigna	0	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	90	70	0	0	10
Khmer (Cambodian)	0	0	0	0	0
Vietnamese	85	75	0	5	10
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e	0	0	0	0	0
Austronesian languages	185	180	0	0	0
Bikol	0	0	0	0	0
Cebuano	10	10	0	0	0
Fijian	5	0	0	0	0
Hiligaynon	0	0	0	0	0
Ilocano	0	0	0	0	0
Malagasy	0	0	0	0	0
Malay	5	5	0	0	0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango)	0	0	0	0	0
Pangasinan	0	0	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	165	165	0	0	0
Waray-Waray	0	0	0	0	0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Creole languages	15	5	0	5	0
Haitian Creole	0	0	0	5	0
Creole, n.o.s.	10	5	0	5	0
Creole languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages	105	100	0	0	0
Kannada	15	10	0	0	0
Malayalam	55	55	0	0	0
Tamil	15	15	0	0	0
Telugu	15	15	0	0	0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Hmong-Mien languages	0	0	0	0	0
Indo-European languages	2,045	1,740	0	180	125
Albanian	70	55	0	5	5
Armenian	0	0	0	0	0
Balto-Slavic languages	330	285	0	30	15
Baltic languages	0	5	0	0	0
Latvian	0	0	0	0	0
Lithuanian	0	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages	330	290	0	25	15
Belarusan	5	5	0	0	0
Bosnian	25	20	0	0	5
Bulgarian	10	10	0	0	0
Croatian	20	15	0	5	0
Czech	10	10	0	0	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0	0
Polish	50	40	5	10	5
Russian	130	115	0	10	5
Serbian	20	15	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	10	10	0	0	0
Slovak	5	5	0	0	0
Slovene (Slovenian)	10	10	0	0	0
Ukrainian	30	30	0	0	5
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	5	5	0	0	0
Celtic languages	10	10	0	0	0
Scottish Gaelic	5	5	0	0	0
Welsh	5	5	0	0	0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	5	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	650	590	0	55	5
Afrikaans	15	15	0	0	0
Danish	20	15	0	5	0
Dutch	365	340	0	20	5
Frisian	30	30	0	5	0
German	200	175	0	30	0
Icelandic	0	5	0	0	0
Norwegian	5	0	0	0	0
Swedish	0	5	0	0	0
Vlaams (Flemish)	10	10	0	0	0
Yiddish	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Greek	10	5	0	5	0
Indo-Iranian languages	630	520	0	25	85
Indo-Aryan languages	450	360	0	15	75
Bengali	40	35	0	0	0
Gujarati	5	5	0	0	0
Hindi	45	45	0	0	0
Kashmiri	0	0	0	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0	0	0
Marathi	0	0	0	0	0
Nepali	205	135	0	5	65
Oriya (Odia)	0	0	0	0	0
Punjabi (Panjabi)	70	65	0	0	5
Sindhi	0	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	45	40	0	5	0
Urdu	40	35	0	5	0
Iranian languages	180	160	0	10	10
Kurdish	0	0	0	0	0
Pashto	5	0	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	180	160	0	10	10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	5	5	0	0	0
Italic (Romance) languages	340	260	0	70	15
Catalan	0	0	0	0	0
Italian	45	30	0	20	0
Portuguese	65	55	0	5	0
Romanian	15	15	0	5	0
Spanish	220	165	0	40	15
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Japanese	85	75	0	5	5
Kartvelian languages	0	0	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0	0
Korean	110	95	0	5	10
Mongolic languages	0	0	0	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	80	60	0	15	0
Akan (Twi)	0	0	0	0	0
Bamanankan	0	0	0	0	0
Edo	0	0	0	0	0
Ewe	0	0	0	0	0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde)	0	0	0	0	0
Ga	0	0	0	0	0
Ganda	0	0	0	0	0
Igbo	5	5	0	0	0
Lingala	0	0	0	0	0
Rundi (Kirundi)	10	5	0	0	0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)	0	0	0	0	0
Shona	5	0	0	0	0
Swahili	20	15	0	5	0
Wolof	0	0	0	0	0
Yoruba	20	25	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.	20	15	0	5	0
Nilo-Saharan languages	0	0	0	0	0
Dinka	0	0	0	0	0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Sign languages	5	0	0	0	0
American Sign Language	5	0	0	0	0
Quebec Sign Language	0	0	0	0	0
Sign languages, n.i.e	5	5	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages	2,450	1,720	0	45	680
Chinese languages	2,405	1,680	0	50	675
Cantonese	175	140	0	10	30
Hakka	0	0	0	0	0
Mandarin	1,890	1,345	0	35	505
Min Dong	0	0	0	0	0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese)	20	15	0	0	5
Wu (Shanghainese)	45	35	0	0	10
Chinese, n.o.s.	270	145	0	0	130
Chinese languages, n.i.e.	5	5	0	0	0
Tibeto-Burman languages	45	40	0	0	5
Burmese	20	15	0	0	0
Karenic languages	20	15	0	0	0
Tibetan	0	0	0	0	0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e.	5	5	0	0	0
Tai-Kadai languages	10	10	0	0	0
Lao	0	0	0	0	0
Thai	10	15	0	0	0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e	0	0	0	0	0
Turkic languages	20	20	0	5	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	0	0	0
Turkish	20	20	0	0	0
Uyghur	0	5	0	0	0
Uzbek	0	5	0	0	0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Uralic languages	70	60	0	10	5
Estonian	5	5	0	0	0
Finnish	15	15	0	5	0
Hungarian	45	40	0	5	0
Uralic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Other languages, n.i.e.	10	10	0	0	0
Multiple responses	615	340	5	275	0
English and French	250	45	0	200	0
English and non-official language	330	290	0	35	0
French and non-official language	25	0	0	20	0
English, French and non-official language	15	0	0	20	0

Symbol(s)

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not available for a specific reference period

Symbol ...

not applicable

Symbol x

suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act

Symbol F

too unreliable to be published

Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

n.i.e. = not included elsewhere
n.o.s. = not otherwise specified

Data quality note(s) – Queens

• Incomplete enumeration flag
  Default. Not applicable.
• Short-form data quality flag
  Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 4.2%.
• Short-form income data quality flag
  Default. Data quality index showing a short-form income non-response rate lower than 10%.

Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016055.